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Example sentences for: stale

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(There's only one copy--a device that was stale a century ago when Hedda Gabler burned Ejlert Lovborg's manuscript and in the age of word processors is just inane.)
Dissenters find the novel's transgressive bent a touch stale, but the pack praises it.
From what I've been told, the attorney is the one who advised him to get a new driver's license in 1995 when a survey of his public records uncovered a stale but nevertheless incriminating trail for an overly eager reporter to follow," he said, pausing occasionally to spit tobacco juice into the ever-present Styrofoam cup.
Before long, however, the buck-stops-here cliché grew stale, and the story line changed.
As his ideas grew familiar and then stale, he found no way to complicate them, develop them, or move on to something else.